Improved machine for packing tea, coffee



@fitte JOHN GARSED AND CLAYTON DENN, OF VJTILANKFORD, APENNSYL- VANIA,.ASSIGNORS TO JOHN GARSED.

Letters Patent N0.`83,95l, (lated November l0, 186.8.

IMPROVED MACHINEI'OR PACKING TEA, COFFEE, .&c.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce/rn Be it known that we, J ons Gxnsnn and CLAYTON DENN, of Frankford, in the county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Machine for Packing Tea, Coffee, Sto.; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved machine for packing tea, coffee, 86e., in paper bags, with a given weight of the article in each bag.

The object of the invention is to obtain a means, for the purpose specified, which will admit of the work being performed rapidly, and in a perfect manner, and Without the employment of skilled labor.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure l is a side sectional view of our invention, taken in the line :t x, iig. 2.

Figure 2, a rear elevation of a portion of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the framing of the machine, which may be composed of two uprights, a a, connected, at their upper ends, by a top plate, l), and by a cross-plate, c, some distance below the top plate b.

B represents a rectangular box, which passes through the'topV plate b, and is allowed to slide freelynp and down the lower' end of said box, being connected, by a rod, C, with a treadle, D, against the under side of which a spring, E, bears, said spring having a tend ency to keep the treadle elevated.

This box B has no bottom directly attached to it, the upper end of the rod G being secured to the lower end of the box'by a rod, d.

Nhat serves as a bottom for the box is a horizontal plate, F, supported by four uprights, e, secured to the cross-plate o.

This plate F is fixed, while the box, as before stated, is allowed to slide up anddown, said motion being given it through the media of the treadle D and spring E.

G is a treadle, which is placed by the side of the treadle D, and has a spring, H, bearing against its under side.

I is an upright shaft, which is fitted loosely in a vertical tube, J, and is allowed' to rise and fall, and turn freely therein.

The lower end of the shaft I is iitted on a rod, K, in

such a manner as to form a secure connection, and at the same time allow the shaft I to turn freely upon it, the lower end of the rod K being attached to the treadle G.

The shaft I has a pin, f, projecting horizontally from it, having a roller fitted on it, which works in a slot in the lower part of tube J, the lower portion G of said slot being vertical, and the upper part h being spiral the box.

or oblique. (See fig. 2.) This slot and pin cause the shaft I to turn in the tube J about a quarter of a revolution at the termination of its upward and at the commencement of its' downward stroke.

To the upper end of shaft I there is secured. a horizontal arni, L, which has a vertical shaft, M, at its outer end, the shaft M having av square or rectangular plunger, N, secured to its lower end.

This plunger N is hollow, and has within it a plate, c', to which a series of pendent rods, j, is attached, the latter, when pressed down, passing through the bottom of the plunger, and, when drawn up, being within the plunger, the latter position being shown clearlyin ii g. 2.

These rods are raised and lowered by having a rod, k, attached to it, which rod is fitted in the shaft M, and allowed to risc and fall freely therein.

This rod it has a pin, Z, projecting horizontally from it, and this pin passes through avertical slot, m, in shaft M, and also through a curved slot, 1i, in a collar, O, which is tted loosely on the shaft M. This will be fully understood by referring to fig. 2.

P is a rectangular sheet-metal box, which is fitted in the box B.

This box P basa daring upper. end, o. Y

Q, is a horizontal fork, which is attached to the upper end of a rising-and-falling bar, R, which is operated by a lever, S. This fork Q embraces the box B, a prong beingat two opposite sides of it.

The operation is as follows: The tea, coffee, or other substance to be packed is weighed out in suitable quan tities, and put into the box P as weighed, one quantity at a time. 'Previous to the placing of the box P in B, paper is adj usted around its exterior, to form the bag, the lower edge of the paper bein g folded over the lower edge of f P, to form the bottoni of the bag. Thebox P is then placed in box B, the weighed substance put into P, and the treadle G forced down by the foot, the treadle G, as it'desceuds, causing the plunger N to turn directly over the box P, and, when the plunger arrives at this position, it descends and packs the substance in forces upward the box P, free from the paper bag and its contents, which are retained in box B, the plunger N, which is still held down, preventing them from rising. The plunger-N is then allowed to rise and swing around, and box P removed. The plunger is then again brought down on to the substance'being packed, then 'allowed to rise and swing out of the way, the paper The lever S is then raised, and the fork Q l shown, so that the plunger Will have a risng-and-falling and also a turning movement communicated to it, for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The rising-and-falling box B, with the xed bottom plate F, in combination with the plungerN, all arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. 'lhe box l?, in combination with the fork Q, risingand-falling b'ox B, and plunger N, all arranged substantially 'in the manner as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN GARSED.

- CLAYTON DENN Witnesses L. M. lRoUTMAN, JoHN TAYLOR. 

